Hello All, Today is finally the day that I made the move to work 100% within Linux. SuSE 7.1 and Applix Office finally arrived just before the w/e. So Sunday night when baby and wife were in bed I slapped it on my laptop and my old desktop machine. Everything went very smoothly. Then I set up the desktop to act as a router for my laptop (only has winmodem in it) and that worked fine. I could access the net from both Linux and Windows. This morning when I came in early to the office I set up a new PCMCIA scheme and was able to access the web via the office Windows 2000 server (have almost persuaded them to switch to an old pc with Linux on - using a Windows 2000 server on someones workstation just for net access is overkill). Sweet. Imported all 124MB of e-mails from Outlook 2000 via Outlook Express 5 and the KMail import utility. Worked beautifully. Setup all my e-mail accounts. Great. Setup filters (a few problems - see separate post). Few minor problems (star office still not working probably to do with Xfree86 4.02. when I have time will switch back to 3.x; also wheel mouse not configured yet - again that can wait). The new Applix installed without any hitches. Applix is both great and disappointing. Disappointing because it doesn't do a very good job of importing my simple one page Word97 documents and fails miserably on my somewhat complex Excel97 spreadsheets. Exciting because it works very nicely in new documents. At the end of the day I am happy with it and confident that it will be fine for a daily word processing workhorse. The important information in the word documents is all visible and still formatted OK. It's only the headers and footers that are messed up, as to the Excel files, OK I'll just have to get StarOffice working properly. Now the last major hurdle (for the time being of course!) is the office printer. It is a Xerox Docuprint P8e laserprinter. It is connected to a Win98 work station in a peer-to-peer network (although this might change if they ever get the Windows 2000 server sorted out properly). The driver on the win98 workstation is for an HP Laserjet 6L PCL printer. Works fine under windows. I have followed the manual and set up both pre-filter and forwarding queue. Checked it and double checked it. When I enter the command: lpr -hp /some/ascii/file/to/print I get the response: lpr: connect: Connection refused. I can ping the workstation with the printer on it no problem. Does anyone have any ideas as to what I should do next? If I can sort this out today it really will *make*my*day*. Thanks in advance, Jethro PS. Actually I have already found another problem with KMail and sending to this list. I'll put that in a separate post.